Werner Kallmorgen

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Werner Kallmorgen (born August 15, 1902 in Altona ; † January 26, 1979 in Heimhart near Landau an der Isar ; full name: Max Georg Werner Kallmorgen ) was a Hamburg architect .

Life and work

IBM House (1963-1967)
Headquarters Otto-Versand (1959–1970)
Altona General Hospital (1961–1970)
Ernst Barlach House (1961–1962)
Kaispeicher A (1962–1966)

Werner Kallmorgen was born in Altona in 1902 as the son of the architect Georg Kallmorgen, who ran the architectural office Lundt & Kallmorgen together with Werner Lundt and was also the Altona building senator from 1908 to 1914. Already his grandfather Friedrich Kallmorgen (1819-1891, not to be confused with the painter of the same name ) was the owner of a brickworks in the building trade and as a builder (together with Gottfried Semper's son Manfred Semper ) had built numerous apartments in the rapidly growing city of Altona .

Kallmorgen studied from 1920 to 1925 at the Technical University of Munich and at the Technical University of Dresden , worked from 1927 to 1928 in the Altona Building Department and then as a freelance architect. In 1930 he joined the Altona artists' association . During the 1930s he mainly designed single-family houses. After the beginning of the Second World War he found work in public construction and was involved, among other things, in the air raid shelter of the building construction office ( air raid shelter on Henriettenstrasse in Eimsbüttel , 1940). He also worked on the plans for the reconstruction of Hamburg, which were tackled under Konstanty Gutschow during the war . When these plans were essentially adopted and continued in the post-war period, Kallmorgen continued to be involved and was a member of the Urban Planning Working Committee from 1945 to 1947. Initially, he played a key role in the reconstruction of the Hamburg warehouse district . He also designed new interiors for theaters that had been destroyed, such as the Hanover Opera House , the Kiel Opera House (then Stadttheater), the Thalia Theater in Hamburg (partly in collaboration with Adolf Zotzmann ) and the Altona Theater in the original house built by Gustav Oelsner Youth. He designed the new interior in an unconventional way and tried to remove the strict separation between stage and auditorium. In the period that followed, Kallmorgen built numerous public buildings and housing developments in Hamburg. From 1963 he shared an office with Karlheinz Riecke, Gustav Karres and his son Thomas, from which he retired in 1974 after he had come under public criticism for the too expensive construction of the Altona General Hospital . He moved to Bavaria, where he died in 1979.

Out of the architectural oeuvre of Werner Kallmorgens, which is broadly based on building typology, his plans for the reconstruction of theaters stand out, for which he was "known nationwide and internationally."

Werner Kallmorgen's second wife, Inge, née Behncke, was a journalist and later also worked as an interior designer.

buildings

Publications

  • What does it mean and at what end is municipal theater built? Verlag Das Example, Darmstadt 1955.
  • (with Cornelius Gurlitt ): For the liberation of architecture. Ullstein, Berlin 1968. (= Bauwelt-Fundamente, Volume 22.)

exhibition

literature

Web links

Commons : Werner Kallmorgen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detlef Jessen-Klingenberg: Architectural pride and client happiness - different than usual. Werner Kallmorgen and his apartments. In: Gert Kähler , Hans Bunge u. a. (Ed.): The architect as builder Hamburg master builder and their house (= series of publications of the Hamburg architecture archive. Volume 34). Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 3-86218-077-8 , pp. 276-279.
  2. ↑ Late honor for a great architect. In: Welt am Sonntag . March 26, 2006, accessed June 9, 2017.
  3. ↑ St. Annen 2, former Freihafenamt, Speicherstadt Hamburg
  4. ↑ 100 years of Christ Church at Suttnerpark in Altona
  5. ^ New building for the Hamburger Bank from 1861 . In: Building + Living . Issue 1/1956 ( digitized version )
  6. ↑ Ulrich Cornehl: room massages. The architect Werner Kallmorgen 1902-1979 . Dölling and Galitz, 2003, p. 336 No. 231 books.google
  7. ↑ Kock, Sabine (K) a question of insignificance in DAB Regional, regional edition Hamburg.Schleswig-Holstein, official organ of the Hamburg Chamber of Architects and the Chamber of Architects and Engineers, 04/2018, pp. 10-13
  8. ↑ The former SPIEGEL house on Brandstwiete
personal data
SURNAME Kallmorgen, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kallmorgen, Max Georg Werner (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1979
Place of death Heimhart at Landau adIsar